Saw this (Million Dollar Traders) advertised briefly the other night…
Can’t believe it really. Yes, I know, the general personal response, if one has a bleat about TV, is to simply not turn your TV on and thereby avoiding watching the item in question.
I will happily do that with this show (just like I do with its companions like The Apprentice, Dragons’ Den, etc) - but I’m still going to have my bleat 
What I can’t believe is whilst BBC News is busily creating news sub-sites like ‘The downturn’ chronicling (I was tempted to use ‘merrily reporting’) job losses, business closures, the rapidly disappearing equity in people’s house prices etc etc.
And… given that it is generally agreed that trading - or as many commentators have phrased it ‘gambling’ or ’speculating’ - in ‘the markets’ (ok, derivatives, if you want to get specific) was one of the key factors in how we arrived in the current global economic mess (and I realise this is too simplistic) …
and I know… this was commissioned 6 or 12 months ago… but I don’t consider that an excuse…
It seems to me there’s enough truth here that I won’t be surprised if those who are losing their jobs, businesses, houses, life savings, and/or savings income, might be more than ‘a little miffed’ at the ‘Beeb’ carrying on with airing their ‘get rich quick’ types of reality show…
On their behalf I think it’s morally bankrupt.
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1 HelenS // Jan 25, 2009 at 11:07 pm
A rather lame ‘hear hear’ from me. I was absolutely appalled when I saw this not only in the schedules but actively being hyped on BBC 1/BBC 2. In fact, I think it was the hyping of it that actually made me feel really annoyed, rather than the fact that they’d made these programmes. In their shoes, I think I’d simply be embarrassed…
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